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		<title>Jesus is a Better Deal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last book of the New Testament was never meant to become this really scary and confusing story we have made it into. It was written to encourage Christians of its age and, indeed, all ages to stake their claim with Jesus, no matter what the empire offers to or forces on us. John knew that all Caesar and the Roman Empire had was the power of death, while Jesus and the Realm of God has the power of life. That’s a big difference that the empire would rather that we not take into consideration.]]></description>
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		<title>If You Remember Nothing Else&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Hebrew scriptures, the Jewish people are instructed to love their neighbors as themselves (Leviticus 19:18). Jesus, however, asks his followers to both receive his love and share that same agape love. In this, God is glorified–not only glorified, but actually known and seen. The incarnate presence is re-introduced again and again in this world through the love that Jesus’ followers demonstrate.]]></description>
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		<title>Miracles that Take Hard Work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ To read about Peter saying that is another miracle. A miracle even more profound, I might suggest, than raising Tabitha from the dead. Some miracles take hard work, and reaching across the lines and tearing down the walls of division is a miracle you have to work for. It seems like it was easier for Peter to raise Tabitha from the dead than enter the house of a Gentile and claim that God loved those folk as much as God loved Peter’s folk.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Forgiveness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a maturing in our relationship with God throughout the passing of the years that comes amid stumbles and successes, paired with dogged devotion and rugged perseverance. Peter’s professed love for Jesus shapes itself over the long haul into concrete ministry that comes with a cost. Peter’s maturing process leads him all the way to his own cross, reversing his cowardice in the face of Jesus’ cross so many years before. The disciple’s journey is a powerful testimony of grace, transformation, and patience.]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection(s)!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So nobody expected the tomb to be empty when they got to the cemetery. That’s what all the stories tel us. And they also all tell us that when they did get there the tomb was empty. And they were very confused.]]></description>
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		<title>Disarmed Tombs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter morning is our invitation to look at life from the inside of an empty tomb. The grave cloths are lying there with no real purpose anymore. The stone has been rolled away and the call we have to follow Jesus takes us away from the tomb.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Really about What Happens Afterwards&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know what comes afterward for Jesus. The cheering crowd gives way to a profoundly different trajectory–a savior weeping over Jerusalem and cleansing the Temple with his bare hands. A final meal among friends, hours of agonizing prayer followed by betrayal and arrest. Physical and verbal abuse, a death sentence wrung out of a crowd. Execution on a Roman cross, burial in a borrowed space.]]></description>
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		<title>Remember?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She learned that, I think, from Jesus himself. He took plenty of risks himself, some that seemed as crazy as a woman approaching a man at a first century Palestinian dinner, and rubbing that oil into him. He defied all kinds of religious norms and customs. He knew the kinds of things he was saying and doing could lead to a Roman cross. It was all crazy. But he took the risk. Why? Because he trusted God. Jesus didn’t just believe in God. He trusted that God would be with him no matter what if he stood for God’s ways of love, mercy, justice, compassion, inclusion, and peace. Jesus trusted God to his grave and beyond. And that woman knew that someone who had such a great trust in God could be trusted himself.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shepherd and woman seek, seek, and seek some more. They prioritize that one sheep and that one coin, investing their time and energy in restoring the lost. The wealthy father and landowner waits, waits, and waits some more. When his son finally returns home, the father prioritizes that fractured relationship. He is ready to re-invest his time, energy, and wealth in this son, in spite of the young man’s past rebellion. In each parable, commitment to relationship is fundamental to the outcome.]]></description>
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		<title>Theology Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s one way to look at that parable. But there is another way to read it that is more in line with the kind of thing Jesus might have been thinking about. Don’t think of it as a allegory where everything has to mean something. What if Jesus was just saying something like this? “You know, God is like a gardener who lovingly tends an apple tree until it’s ready to start dropping apples. God is there through disease and infestation, through drought and flood. God is even there trying to keep stupid landowners from chopping down the tree.”]]></description>
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